Joint media release with the Hon Tara Moriarty MLC
Five New South Wales agriculture processing businesses will be supported to help keep primary industry supply chains moving under Round 2 of the jointly-funded Supply Chain Support Program.
The program enables flood-impacted agriculture processing businesses and co-operatives impacted by the February and March 2022 floods, to rebuild, repair and improve resilience with funding provided through Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).
Projects approved under Round 2 include rebuilding and repair measures like the installation of valves to help protect factory drains from future flooding, and the replacement of flood-damaged assets, such as machinery and fencing.
More than $4.1 million is being jointly committed under Round 2 of the program, building on the previous $3.5 million that was invested under Round 1.
The five businesses to receive funding through Round 2 are:
- Manildra Harwood Sugars (Sunshine Sugar) – $2,000,000
- Lower Richmond River Cane Harvesting Cooperative Limited – $874,705
- Clarence River Fishermen’s Cooperative Limited – $190,000
- Woodburn Cane Harvesting Cooperative Limited - $660,165
- Pasta’bah – $406,000
The Department of Regional NSW managed the assessment of all applications against published guidelines and assessment criteria utilising expertise from an independent assessment panel.
For further information, visit the NSW Government Supply Chain Support Program website.
Quotes attributable to Federal Minister for Emergency Management Murray Watt:
“Round 1 of the Supply Chain Support Program has already helped great ag businesses to repair premises and keep their employees in jobs at multiple flood impacted operations across NSW, including dairies, distilleries and seafood suppliers.
“We’re also ensure they are better prepared for increasingly intense and severe weather events in the future.
“We know farmers are disproportionately affected by natural disasters, so it’s important that we support flood-impacted processing and harvesting businesses to rebuild and repair so that food can continue to go from the paddock onto our plates.”
Quotes attributable to Minister for Regional NSW Tara Moriarty:
“By supporting these five businesses under round two of the Supply Chain Support Program, we’re helping to strengthen primary industries across the state.
“The $4.1 million going out the door will assist these businesses to modernise their operations by building back flood-impacted assets more resiliently so they can get back to work faster and help keep people in our regions in jobs following floods.
“For example, Sunshine Sugar will build resilience measures into its processing plant in Condong, in the Tweed Shire, with plans to install a flood wall, flood sump pumps and pits, as well as rerouting downpipes and installing valves, to reduce any flood damage to their drains.”
This release was originally published on the Ministers for the Department of Home Affairs' website.